Meet Mark

Let me introduce myself. My name is Mark Sisson. I’m 63 years young. I live and work in Malibu, California. In a past life I was a professional marathoner and triathlete. Now my life goal is to help 100 million people get healthy. I started this blog in 2006 to empower people to take full responsibility for their own health and enjoyment of life by investigating, discussing, and critically rethinking everything we’ve assumed to be true about health and wellness...

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American man unofficially beats a world record by running 10 marathons in 10 days, averaging under 3 hours for each.

Another American man trounces them all, finishing the 2,181 mile-long Appalachian Trail in 45.5 days while carrying a 25 pound pack and completely supporting himself (no team following along with food and shelter). For a great film about the previous record holder, watch this.

A film project I’m supporting because it’s that important: Diana Rodger’s Sacred Cow, a film (actually, now a docuseries) about meat and environmental sustainability that promises to counter the overwhelming barrage of vegan anti-meat propaganda. We need this.

Brilliant scientist come to the conclusion that Neanderthals, who lived in frozen ice world with little to no edible plants and abundant mega fawna actual sustained themselves on primarily a meat based diet. Ingenious!

Here’s the thing about that Jocko Willink “just do it” advice: I spent years and years fighting to wake up early and was just physically unable to do it … until I drastically cut bullshit carbs out of my diet. Other lifestyle changes helped, but that’s the big one. I used to turn off my alarm before I was even awake enough to register an intention of getting up. I would do this even if the alarm was all the way across the room. I used to set a second alarm in the bathroom so I could jump straight into the shower, then would fall asleep in the shower. Now? When my alarm clock goes off, I actually do wake up enough to make a choice about hitting that snooze button, or I wake up before the alarm even goes off. So Jocko’s advice is probably good for this Primal community audience — but for me the *first* necessary step was to go Primal.